Hey folks,
Which of Aesops Fables represents the statement 'wanting is greater than having'?
Or any literary reference / quote directly about that statement.
>>9308267
This may not be the angle you're going for, but Machiavelli's Discourses had a couple of comments touching on "your reach exceeds your grasp" etc.
>Nature has so constituted men that, though all things are objects of desire, not all things are attainable; so that desire always exceeds the power of attainment, with the result that men are ill content with what they possess and their present state brings them little satisfaction. Hence arise the vicissitudes of their fortunes.
>Human appetites are insatiable, for by nature we are so constituted that there is nothing we cannot long for, but by fortune we are such that of these things we can attain but few. The result is that the human mind is perpetually discontented, and of its possessions is apt to grow weary. This makes it find fault with the present, praise the past, and long for the future; though for its doing so no rational cause can be assigned.
Maybe that might help. Best of luck!
>>9308267
Gee what was even the point of having Aesop for a slave when his entire torso was barely over a foot long?
>>9308267
look at those tiny shoulders on aesop
fucking greeklet
press F to pay respects to the greatest author of the 21st century
That's a pretty loose definition of "author."
>>9308212
he authored more than you ever will
name one writer more influential from the last 17 years.
>>9308225
I'm not saying that he didn't write or that he wasn't influential or that I've written more than him. Calling Supreme Court Justices authors doesn't actually credit the scope of what they do and undermines your own half-assed claim.
Does anyone have the annotated Lolita? Is it worth reading after an initial reading of Lolita?
Yes it is.
>>9308184
How so?
I wrote a lot of shit but it got erased by mistake.
In short, it has useful annotations, an insightful introduction, and nice typesetting.
Appel was in contact with Nabokov throughout the editing process and some annotations are actually comments from Nabokov on a certain passage.
If you want to study Lolita or to know more about it because you really liked it, then go for it. It's definitely worth it.
Pic related, it's my copy. I've read it twice or thrice and it's always a nice experience.
One of these threads. It's /lit/, mods
>>9308154
His face in the last panel gets me every time.
What's your pen name?
>>9308126
Wallace David Foster
>>9308126
Data Miner
Bloom
>There's no Great American Nov-
>>9308101
I don't get it
>>9308101
am i to assume your break in text references Wallace's unprecedented suicide?
>>9308113
>unprecedented
you need a better thesaurus
What are Nick Land's actual positions on race? I can't work through his whole online presence with all the layers of "what am I really getting at this time" and the Anti-LD50 people are saying he's racist like other NRx people but that seems to obscure more than it elucidates.
Where does he stand on both "HBD" and communal racial diversity?
humble bump
I know only a little about Land but it seems he is more of an elitist than a racist.
I've read about IQ shredders and read rumors that he thinks autism is the next step in evolution.
He seems to care more about individual genetics than population genetics, from the little that I know. But I could be wrong since I don't know a whole lot about Land.
>>9309329
>he thinks autism is the next step in evolution
So he's Varg but for stemlords?
>>9307980
As long as it's sound and coherent, not at all.
nietzsche built a career on it
>>9308014
Go on...
>Games as Literature is an endeavor that hopes to advance the study of video games as an art form, both in culture at large and specifically in the academic world. The series on this Youtube channel, Games as Lit. 101, is one step in that process.
why do gamers feel the need to compare video games to other mediums when analysing them? would/has anyone attempted the inverse?
>>9307821
Video games are art but not all art must be appreciated the same way.
People compare different mediums all the time. It's the easiest way to get a writing job or teaching position.
>>9307821
Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives kind of does this, but it's less comparing lit to games and more just discussing the various ways in which different mediums tackle large stories.
>>9307821
It's an attempt to justify the wasted ours of their youth, as well as their current disinclination to read.
Games have some literary aspects, the same as movies (their scripting.) But while a small amount of videogames may occasionally approach literature, they remain something else.
roses are red
voilet is blue
i maked poopy
in my bed
Under Cover of Night
To slip into your shadow under cover of night.
To follow your footsteps, your shadow at the window.
That shadow at the window is you and no one else;
it's you.
Do not open that window behind whose curtains you're moving.
Shut your eyes.
I'd like to shut them with my lips.
But the window opens and the breeze, the breeze
which strangely balances flame and flag surrounds my escape
with its cloak.
The window opens: it's not you.
I knew it all along.
She came to me
with broken wings,
And blamed the doctor
for she could not fly
and the raspberry
as the sun rose
decided to lock down
the orchard and dissolve
but instead
it swelled
Is this easy to read? Does it use complex language or very uncommon words? English is not my first language but i can't afford the spanish versions. Also, people have told me this is a good translation.
>>9307714
Wording isn't that bad, just kind of old-sounding which could definitely be odd for non-native English speakers
>>9307714
Yes, Fagles is easy to read. Here are two sample pages from my copy of your pic related.
MORE LIKE FAG LES LOL
REAL MAN TRANSLATION COMMING THROUGH
What is /depressioncore/ lit?
Besides Cioran and Ligotti. Preferably seeking non-fiction, academic based works on why I feel nothing.
>>9307706
Sick pape, cuh. Where you find that?
>>9307712
/wg/ a few months back.
>>9307706
capital is fucking depressing as fuck
most books are depressing
Do writers tend to dramatize their own everyday lives?
>Do x tend to dramatize their own everyday lives?
probably
Why don't you read a book and find out, friend?
>>9307628
Why don't you fuck off, faggot?
>first day of English uni
>forgot to shmoop Game of Thrones for the welcome back quiz
>professor asks if we saw the latest episode of Gotham last night because he's going to use Batman as an analogy
>everyone laughs but me because the torrent isn't available yet
>first day back at Uni
>already assigned a bunch of work to be done by the end of the week
Must be nice over there in the daycare that is Humanities. We here in STEM don't have time for cute little quizzes.
>Final liberal arts exam
>They dont have any Starbucks aprons in my size so I get one thats way too tight
>My coffee maker keeps making a funny rattling noise and the lattes keep coming out watery without any froth
>he thinks he reads philosophy
However
>These three investigators- Korzybski, Ogden and Richards agrees broadly on two besetting sins of language. One is identification of words with things. The other is misuse of abstract words.
>Odgen and Richards contribute a technical term, the "referent", by which they the object or situation in the real world to which the word or label refers.
>indeed the goal of semantics might be stated as find the referent.
>When people can agree on the thing which their words refer, minds meet. The communication line is cleared.
>labels and names for things can be classified, roughly, into three classes on an ascending scale.
>1, labels for common objects, such as "dog", "chair" or "pen". Here difficulty is at a minimum
>2, Labels for clusters of collections of things- "mankind",, "consumer goods", "germany", "white race". These are abstractions of a higher order, and confusion in their use is widespread. There is no entity "white Race" in the world outside of our heads, but only some millions of individuals with skin of an obvious or dubious whiteness.
>>9307582
>3, Labels for essences and qualities such as "the sublime," "freedom," "individualisim," "truth,". For such terms there is no discoverable referents in the outside world,, and by mistaking them for substantial entities somewhere at large in the environment, we create a fantastical wonderland. This zone is the especial domain of philosophy, politics and economics.
>we normally bed the hard question of finding referents and proceed learnedly to define the term by giving another dictionary abstraction, for example, defining "liberty" by "freedom" - "thus peopleing the universe with spurious entities, mistaking symbolic machinery for referents." We seldom come down to earth, but allow our language forms or symbolic machinery to fashion a demonolgy of absolutes and high-order abstractions, in which we come to believe as firmly as Calvin believed in the Devil.
>you doubt this? Let me ask you a question: Does communisim threaten the world? Unless you are conscious of the dangers lying in the use of abstract terms, you may take this question seriously. You may personify "communisim" as a real thing, advancing physically over the several continents, as a kind of beast or angel, depending on your politics.
>but you have identified the word with the thing, and furthermore you would be very hard put to it to find lower-order referents for the term. I have been searching for them for years. The question as it stands is without meaning.
Bump, does anyone actually have any thoughts?